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Floater vs. Police — What's the Difference?

Floater vs. Police — What's the Difference?

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Floater

Floaters or eye floaters are sometimes visible deposits within the eye's vitreous humour ("the vitreous"), which is normally transparent, or between the vitreous and retina. Each floater can be measured by its size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility.

Police

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

Floater

One that floats or is capable of floating.

Police

A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.

Floater

One who wanders; a drifter.
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Police

A body of persons with a similar organization and function
Campus police. Also called police force.

Floater

An employee who is reassigned from job to job or shift to shift within an operation.

Police

(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.

Floater

One who votes illegally in different polling places.

Police

(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds
Grammar police.
Fashion police.

Floater

An insurance policy that protects movable property in transit or regularly subject to use in varying places.

Police

The cleaning of a military base or other military area
Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.

Floater

(Slang) A corpse found floating in a body of water.

Police

The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.

Floater

A deposit of material in the vitreous humor of the eye, usually consisting of aggregations of cells or proteins that have detached from the retina, perceived as a spot or thread in the visual field.

Police

To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.

Floater

A knuckleball.

Police

To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way
Policing others' comments by implementing speech codes.

Floater

One who or that which floats.

Police

To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
Policed the grammar of everyone who commented on the blog post.

Floater

An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.

Police

To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance
Policed the barracks.

Floater

(sports) An unaffiliated player.

Police

A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
Call the police!

Floater

(politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.

Police

A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
The Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.

Floater

A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.

Police

(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.

Floater

One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.

Police

Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.

Floater

An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.

Police

The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.

Floater

(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.

Police

People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
Who called the fashion police?

Floater

A small suet dumpling put into soup.

Police

Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

Floater

(AU) A pie floater.

Police

Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.

Floater

(police jargon) A corpse floating in a body of water.

Police

(obsolete) policy.

Floater

(vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
He left a floater in the toilet.

Police

(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.

Floater

Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.

Police

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.

Floater

(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.

Police

To clean up an area.

Floater

(finance) A floating rate bond.

Police

To enforce norms or standards upon.
To police a person's identity

Floater

(surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.

Police

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

Floater

(two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.

Police

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

Floater

(India) A sandal.

Police

The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

Floater

A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

Police

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

Floater

(prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.

Police

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

Floater

(slang) A misstep; a faux pas.

Police

To keep in order by police.

Floater

(basketball) Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.

Police

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Floater

One who floats or swims.

Police

The force of policemen and officers;
The law came looking for him

Floater

A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Police

Maintain the security of by carrying out a control

Floater

A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable.

Floater

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Floater

A debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

Floater

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Floater

An employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed

Floater

A voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election

Floater

A swimmer who floats in the water

Floater

An object that floats or is capable of floating

Floater

An insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location

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